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Thread #109369 Message #2569405
Posted By: Austin P
17-Feb-09 - 03:28 PM
Thread Name: Tech: microphone to sing into computer-HELP
Subject: RE: Tech: microphone to sing into computer-HELP
Joe:
Re my 'world of pain comment'
Latency refers to the time it takes to process the sound input and write it to the disk, OR read it from the disk and feed it to your headphones.
Analogue to digital conversion, (and vice versa), although very quick on modern computers, still takes time - and you will find that trying to record a second track on top of another (e.g. singing to a previously recorded 'backing track') results is them being ever so slightly out of synch. This is latency, or as we folkies call it, a right royal pain in the arse.
It was all easier in the days of reel-to-reel recording, which worked at the speed of light-ish. Apart from the hiss.
AP